Re: [OSM-talk] bicycle=no and cycleway=lane conflicting?

2015-04-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Maarten Deen wrote: I came across this example [1] where a way has bicycle=no and cycleway=lane. IMHO these two tags are also conflicting and the bicycle=no should be removed. Any thoughts? "Cycle lanes" that you cannot, either practically or legally, cycle along are horribly common. Examples

Re: [OSM-talk] Still need for spam protection and if yes, what about OSM-based CATPCHA?

2013-05-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Stefan Keller wrote: Actually, I'd like to hear the opinions of those website admins who really are affected by spam registrations I'm not an OSM website admin, but I do run a site that uses a CAPTCHA and my experience is that in recent times it has become almost completely ineffective. The sp

Re: [OSM-talk] Changing capitalization (Lima)

2012-06-01 Thread Phil Endecott
Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/05/2012 20:13, Worst Fixer wrote: If you notice some big flaw in my case change algoritm, mail me privately. I'd only comment that a really intelligent de-capitalization algorithm would attempt to supply the accents that are missing from the capitalized forms. I h

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

2012-05-29 Thread Phil Endecott
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/5/29 Phil Endecott : No doubt at some point someone decided that "lake:shore_length:miles=2" was a useful thing to record, and you want to remove it. Â Why? because there is no such thing as a "shore length", it depends on the resolut

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

2012-05-29 Thread Phil Endecott
Worst Fixer wrote: I ask you to review my planned edit. There are lot of ways to tag intermittent water feature found in database. Most popular is intermittent=yes. All others come from different old imports. Date ist 2009-2010 year. I countiered ~350 000 features tagged in different such ways.

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit review: ele=0

2012-05-19 Thread Phil Endecott
Worst Fixer wrote: I also created overview.html that might help your review. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzI7ljRzQhp4VnFPVkhZa096LWM I just get "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video." when I try to view that. If it's just an html file, can't you post it somewh

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS Topo maps

2011-11-28 Thread Phil Endecott
Taru Ani wrote: USGS topo maps are in the public domain ( http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html), but must give credit to the USGS. Not, you don't have to acknowledge them; they can be used without restriction. (If you did, they wouldn't be "public domain".) However, they do encourage

Re: [OSM-talk] Google: pay for map and API

2011-10-30 Thread Phil Endecott
Matthias Mei?er wrote: Well, another aspect for a press release might be, that OSM has limited resources as well. Maybe this visualisation and analysis of the tile usage by Apps would be a good starting point: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/15190 Friends, please don't do anything

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap

2011-10-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Mike, Mike Dupont wrote: Hi, we have experimented with hosting the tiles on archive.org there are no size limits or bandwith limits, http://ia600606.us.archive.org/31/items/SharedMap2/index.html Can you clarify this a bit? Have the archive.org people officially said, "you're welcome to st

Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

2011-05-03 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Frederik, Excuse me for jumping in here without knowing much of the background, but: Frederik Ramm wrote: I need to use simplified polygons; cutting out a country with a 15k node polygon would take forever. Is your point-in-polygon test O(N) in the size of the polygon? You can do much be

Re: [OSM-talk] Named passages on hiking paths

2011-03-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Gilles Bassi?re wrote: I'd like to get advice about toponymy in the context of hiking paths. When hiking, I often encounter short technical passages which have a name painted on the rock. In French, the name almost always begin with "Pas de ..." but I'm not sure if there is a good translation fo

Re: [OSM-talk] military vs consumer GPS and the equator

2011-01-25 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Joe, There are tricks there, such as egg-balancing on watching the water go down the sink in different directions - supposedly induced by the coriolis effect. This tells you all you need to know; it's not science, it's just a tourist spectacle. I once kept a tally on my bathroom mirror t

Re: [OSM-talk] Business listings

2009-07-27 Thread Phil Endecott
Lars Aronsson wrote: > I doubt that any "yellow pages" catalog covers a critical mass of > all business any longer. We're back to the 19th century, when, > before telephones, various private publishers printed "address > calendars". Just jumping in with a random factoid here. I read a piece i

Re: [OSM-talk] License for OSM logo

2009-07-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Matt, Matt Amos wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Phil Endecott wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I'd like to use the OSM logo (i.e. the "magnifier on a map" one) for a >> "go to openstreetmap.org" button in an iPhone app. It looks like

[OSM-talk] License for OSM logo

2009-07-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, I'd like to use the OSM logo (i.e. the "magnifier on a map" one) for a "go to openstreetmap.org" button in an iPhone app. It looks like the logo is GPL licensed, which prevents me from doing this. Quoting this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Matt "the icon has t

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Map Maker - press release (Richard Fairhurst)

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Endecott
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > We've put together a press release with OSM (strictly speaking OSMF)'s > reaction to Google Map Maker. > > You can get it in PDF or RTF format at: > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/pr_material/releases/ http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/pr_material/releases/osm_relea

Re: [OSM-talk] Improving on the NGA placenames data

2008-06-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Hakan Tandogan wrote: > On Tue, June 24, 2008 17:13, Phil Endecott wrote: >> So I was wondering whether anyone here knows how I could improve on >> this, i.e. >> >> - Is there an "improved" version somewhere with more ranking >> information in it? > &g

[OSM-talk] Improving on the NGA placenames data

2008-06-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear Experts, For a while I've been hacking together a digital picture frame application that shows my geo-located photos on a world map. At the moment I'm using the NASA "blue marble" satellite imagery for the basemap, which works well (and looks nice) at the sort of scale that I'm intereste